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9. Operation Crusader

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  • Опубліковано 19 тра 2018
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 56

  • @ww2-epicbattles
    @ww2-epicbattles  5 років тому +3

    Books on Operation Crusader:
    Operation Crusader: Tank Warfare in the Desert, Tobruk 1941
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    Operation Crusader 1941: Rommel in retreat amzn.to/2MHuQLI

  • @blitzkrupp8583
    @blitzkrupp8583 4 роки тому +19

    "The German has atonished the world,but the Italians has atonished the Germans"
    - Erwin Rommel -

  • @TheImperatorKnight
    @TheImperatorKnight 6 років тому +57

    Very interesting. I'm currently working on a video on this battle too. You've done a pretty good job of summarising the early-mid events of this very complicated battle. Well done!

  • @AunknownMan
    @AunknownMan 5 років тому +41

    Italy had great soldiers but bad commanders and supplies....

    • @kustio8159
      @kustio8159 4 роки тому +1

      They lacked everything except bravery.

    • @madmax6007
      @madmax6007 4 роки тому

      They were forced its not bravery

  • @b0bb0btheb0b
    @b0bb0btheb0b 6 років тому +14

    Thanks for this. My grandfather was one of the few survivors from the 5th South African (he was Transvaal Horse Artillery) and was taken prisoner at Sidi Rezegh.
    I'd often heard the story about them getting ambushed by German tanks so close they had to fire on them over open sights but I didn't really have any idea of how that fit into the wider story of the war in North Africa.

    • @vvr881
      @vvr881 5 років тому +1

      South Africans were tuff buggers

    • @sontungle2641
      @sontungle2641 Рік тому

      Did he fight with the 3rd field regiment ??.

    • @b0bb0btheb0b
      @b0bb0btheb0b Рік тому

      @@sontungle2641 I don't know the details well enough as I grew up in another country and he died when I was still quite young. From what I understand, the Transvaal Horse Artillery became the 3rd Field Brigade at the outset of the war and were part of the 5th South African Infantry Brigade at least during the North African campaign. He fought in the Abyssinia campaign (Ethiopia) before the events of this video too.
      On top of everything that happened at Sidi Rezegh, he was one of the poor buggers on the Sebastiano Veniero POW transport ship that was torpedoed by a British submarine. He also later survived the forced march in winter at the end of the war from POW camp Stalag VIIIC to Bad Orb (~500km).

  • @mc205alvarez99
    @mc205alvarez99 4 роки тому +6

    The 22° Armored Brigade didn´t do it an "exercise", they was defeated in Bir El Gobi battle against the Ariete italian armored Div. and the Giovanni Facisti unit.

  • @user-xy5dk6qr9c
    @user-xy5dk6qr9c 6 років тому +5

    This video series help me better understand the war books with clear ongoing images of battle fields

    • @ww2-epicbattles
      @ww2-epicbattles  6 років тому +1

      Which is exactly my goal. Thanks for watching.

  • @ALA-uv7jq
    @ALA-uv7jq 5 років тому +30

    Only the British call a retreat a victory.

    • @ArcticTemper
      @ArcticTemper 3 роки тому +6

      Taking your objectives, and stopping the enemy doing the same is a victory. Rommel ran away, not Ritchie.

    • @Bullet-Tooth-Tony-
      @Bullet-Tooth-Tony- 2 роки тому

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crusader Who won again?

  • @REgamesplayer
    @REgamesplayer 5 років тому +4

    Like it was said many times before, Rommel was great tactician, but an absolute idiot when it came to strategy and he had struggled greatly on an operational level too as you can see with his latest blunder.

  • @muhammadthepeacemaker106
    @muhammadthepeacemaker106 5 років тому +19

    ..hmm... The Italians wasn't so bad...I guess,
    Like if anyone Agree.

  • @AyebeeMk2
    @AyebeeMk2 5 років тому +3

    good to see this accuratley described for once.

  • @nickhomyak6128
    @nickhomyak6128 2 роки тому +1

    No mention of Italian 90MM anti-tank gun?

  • @PhillyPhanVinny
    @PhillyPhanVinny 6 років тому +1

    Very good video. I just found your channel and am watching all of your videos. I think it would be cool for at the beginning of your battle videos to list the troop numbers or divisions each side has and then at the end list each sides loses.

    • @ww2-epicbattles
      @ww2-epicbattles  6 років тому +1

      Thank you for the feedback! In fact this is something we already have in mind.
      But we will only do it when we have accurate and detailed information because that's what the purpose of this series is. To give you in depth, knowledge of the tactical situations in each battle instead of a plain, general narration of the battle.

  • @britishknight1788
    @britishknight1788 6 років тому +2

    Looks like that voice is Simple History's narrator, which is very familiar to me.

  • @sontungle2641
    @sontungle2641 Рік тому

    Has Rommel been reinforce with one or two more panzer division that results would be different?.

  • @aarongidley4385
    @aarongidley4385 5 років тому +4

    Where is australian troops on tobruk

    • @backofthegarage2245
      @backofthegarage2245 4 роки тому +1

      They were replaced at Tobruk in October 1941 by the 70th division

  • @tigertank3024
    @tigertank3024 5 років тому +5

    I think I already hear your voice on an other UA-cam channel

  • @GenghisVern
    @GenghisVern 5 років тому +1

    How did you get Martin Sheen to narrate?

  • @Diles46
    @Diles46 6 років тому

    Very fun vid!

  • @davidwormell6609
    @davidwormell6609 4 роки тому

    First advert after 16 seconds!

  • @ww2-epicbattles
    @ww2-epicbattles  6 років тому +3

    Help us purchase the necessary assets to produce more in-depth videos about tactics in major WWII battles. A buck a month is 3 cents a day, five bucks are 17 cents a day.
    www.patreon.com/wwiiepicbattles

  • @PlanetarPL
    @PlanetarPL 5 років тому

    Is it possible today to reconsctruct WW2 battles with high end animations with zoom ins, more details such as numbers, losses and precise movements over timeline? Like in some game but with real numbers and facts behind so that people can see the scope of those egagements.

    • @ww2-epicbattles
      @ww2-epicbattles  5 років тому

      The more informations available the better to can get. Most of the work for these videos is research.

    • @Melanrick
      @Melanrick 5 років тому

      Tik is doing an decent job at this. He goes to the events and the battles at great lenght. You should check his channel.

    • @REgamesplayer
      @REgamesplayer 5 років тому

      The game you are looking for is Graviteam. You are welcome.

  • @ppg8584
    @ppg8584 5 років тому

    its the simple history dude

  • @pedrozs1
    @pedrozs1 5 років тому +1

    Italian tanks are so kitty... look like toys.

  • @eddienom
    @eddienom 6 років тому

    More videos, please.

  • @polpottribute9102
    @polpottribute9102 6 років тому

    Are you leaved from Simple history ?

  • @hellavadeal
    @hellavadeal 4 роки тому +1

    Looked like a big confusing mess.

  • @AunknownMan
    @AunknownMan 5 років тому +2

    Doesnt seem like a victory for Britain

    • @brettd2308
      @brettd2308 5 років тому +5

      Mostly because this video covers the first half of the battle in great detail, but the second half of the battle is quickly summed up in the last 1 minute of the video. And it was in that second half that the British actually won. So while the video is good for what it covers, it can give the impression that the Germans came out better because it focuses so much on the early action that they dominated and doesn't go into as much detail on the later events that swung the battle the other way.

  • @HasxVoiks
    @HasxVoiks 6 років тому +1

    Good video, narrator is annoying and mispronounces almost every non-English word. But otherwise it’s good!

  • @SirWilliamKidney
    @SirWilliamKidney 5 років тому +1

    What, does this guy just ...disagree(?)... with how the British generals pronounce their own names? Does he think his way sounds better or what? This made me lose confidence in the entire feature, in the first minute of the video. Just... Why?

    • @jordangibsonrl
      @jordangibsonrl 5 років тому

      How pretentious of you. Did it not occur to you that the narrator was READING the names?